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Ian
@Ian

NextBlock, Founder & CEO
Creator of The Flirting With Bitcoin Podcast

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Recent Notes

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I feel like I am catching up. All the compartmentalization in engineering departments meant you never got to see how all the sausage was made. Now as a one man shop for the most part, I have to do everything. AI is literally teaching me all the thing that were obfuscated from me over the years.

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The best analogy I've found for coding with AI: it's a 3D printer for software craftsmen.

Yesterday I worked through four different database frameworks. Not reading about them—implementing them. Feeling the tradeoffs between security, sovereignty, and scale in working code. When I decided one wasn't right, the AI rewrote the entire data layer in minutes. Evaluate. Adjust. Repeat.

That kind of iteration used to take weeks. The mythical 10X engineer everyone chases? They were still bottlenecked by typing and context switching. This is a category shift.

The craft isn't gone. It's distilled. System design, debugging intuition, knowing which tradeoffs actually matter—that's still you. What's disappeared is the tedium of translating clear intent into syntax.

The keyboard was never the instrument. Your mental model was. Now you can finally work at the speed of thought.